User talk:Thailog

Hi, just added your wiki to the tv.wikia home page http://tv.wikia.com/wiki/TV_Wiki Nice work on the backround!

Angies
 * Thanks! ―  T hailog  20:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Best of luck to you on the American Dad Wiki from all of us over at the Family Guy Wiki. Looking very good so far! --CannedhamX 01:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Joining this project
I would love to join this project. I just need to buy season 1 and season 2 videos. What else can I do? Real96 06:47, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Nothing else. Just go nuts edit away! ―  T hailog  09:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I have season 1 of this. I can help with the episodes. Real96 19:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! Start contributing then. I know I've fallen behind expectations, but I expect starting to contribute soon. ―  T hailog  17:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

hey
nice work setting this up. ive done a bit to change things around. I like the colors for the most part, but think the background colors of the workspace should change. Maybe either white or a light blue? the purple seems to contract things a bit, and isnt really a color associated with american dad Grande13 03:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Purple? Where? I'm not using any purple. It's light blue. Also, I see you are taking lots of stuff from Family Guy Wikia. That might not be a good idea. I think American Dad Wikia should have its own style. ―  T hailog  11:12, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


 * well im in the process of changing things up a bit. I just used that format initially so I could get all the links functional and add some info such as the episode list and such.


 * not sure if you changed it or not but i switched to another computer yet again and it does appear blue here. so if you didnt change it then my bad as it at least appears blue on some screens,

anyways, any chance you can make me an admin. There are some things im trying to do to differ this wiki from the family guy but apparently i need admin access to get through some protected pages, plus i've contributed a ton to this wiki already... Grande13
 * I did change it to light blue, though to me, now it looks like green... Oh well.
 * I don't have big constrictions as far as adminship is concern, but still I'd prefer to discuss those changes first before conferring you sysop level. Also, I'm not all convinced that you are comfortable with Wiki code... For example, you don't sign your posts with four tildes (your last post only shows your screenname, and not the date), or sometimes you don't sign them at all. It's just a minor detail among some other aspects that I think admins should be mindful of so as to confer a Wikia a certain level of professionalism. That and the fact that I don't know you that well. This does not mean I rule out the possibility of making you an admin, I just want to know what your intentions are to avoid future conflicts. ―  T hailog  16:16, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I was doing a lot of things at the time and was typing quickly and must have just left off the 4th tilde a few times when signing my passages. I've been editing the family guy and american dad wikipedia pages on the main wikipedia site since the beginning, so I feel I am fairly efficient with Wiki Code. Its not like I would do anything drastic to the code without consulting other members first anyways.


 * You can check my track record at the family guy wikia and over at the regular wikipedia for family guy and american dad (My username is Grande13 there as well). I'm quite aware the home page for American Dad is a bit sloppy now, as those are just basically placeholders, but I figured it wasnt the best idea to have any family guy images floating around...


 * anyways my main area of expertise is with the episode lists and individual episode pages so that's where I can be the most help, although I would contribute to other sections as well. Yeah so i'd like to be an admin.  I'm pretty low key so I dont see me causing any conflict issues and i'd discuss things before doing big changes anyways...so let me know what you decide...Grande13 16:33, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * oh, and Im also an admin for the family guy wikiGrande13 16:42, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

logo
Well I put another logo up, but we should probably make/find another one that is higher quality. Grande13 19:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

coding question
I was planning on making a page with general info about American Dad, such as info about the shows history, ratings, podcasts, broadcasters, awards, reviews and criticism and other stuff that is already at the wikipedia site for American Dad.

I didn't have a problem adding this button to the main page, but I was trying to get the new members image to appear in the same area as the image for members list on the template:HomePageCollage.

I figure they are related anyways, and with one image on the left, with text in the middle, with the second image aligned to the right.

It would look something like X (text) X, with the two images being the X's. Just wondering if you knew how to do this as I messed around with it for a bit but  couldn't come away with anything useful. Grande13 00:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Done. Let me know if that's what you wanted. ―  T hailog  11:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it looks good. I'll add some more things when I get some free time. Grande13 13:50, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help. Another thing that needs fixing is Template:EpisodeTabs.  Its regarding the newspaper headline.  It would probably look better to have a space below the headline separating it from the plot, although whenever I try to fix that I dont get the desired results.  If you think the headline would like better in a different location feel free to move it too.  Also, if you see any other changes that the template can benefit from go ahead, but for the most part I think it covers all the general info. Grande13 17:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Another Question
Hey, i'm not sure if this is just standard on all the wikias, but I was wondering if you knew if it was possible to get black lines on the borders of tables. If you don't understand that then look at, on that page there is black little borders around each episode and the season guide table, although when that same code is put into this wikia there aren't any black bars, which in some cases the black bars help divide things up to clearly see what category everything falls in...yeah so just wondering if you knew how to fix this, if its a setting on the wikia or something, or whatever. Grande13 01:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Also, we need to credit content taken from Wikipedia by using Wikipedia ―  T hailog  14:11, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Im probably the one that put most of that info initially on Wikipedia, but i'll use that template from now on, keep up the good work. Grande13 15:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Well apparently my fined tuned wikipedia skills are slipping a bit as I can't seem to center the "Total" column at Episode Guide List. I know how to do it individually for each episode but thought it would save a ton of time if its possible just to make any text that appears in that column center...sorry about asking for all these things, but the wikia is looking much better now. Grande13 22:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Can't figure out how to do that... ―  T hailog  10:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Coding Question
Im doing some stuff for some other wikia's and have realized that all there codes are quite messed up. Im not sure how you did it, but on the episode guide page it has the background color as gray for the backgrounds with the episode descriptions...I like the way it looks but really have no idea why it is that way. Just wondering if you knew the page that has the coding to make the color gray there. thanks and hopefully you can understand this jumbled message Grande13 02:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

NM, the wikia database was just moving slow and it took an hour or so for the changes to get updated, sorry for all the reverses Grande13 03:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. Usually you need to refresh your browser. ―  T hailog  13:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Main Page
So I've updated the main page quite a bit. If you can fix up the logo it would be nice, if not I can try to work on it in a bit. Also, the random newspaper headline thing I couldnt get to fit in properly. I figure you probably have more coding skills so maybe you can get it to fit in. In my opinion I think it would look good somewhere in the right column. Also, I figured out how to embed youtube videos but do you have any knowledge of how to embed the hulu.com videos? Its the official site for watching American Dad and its legit to embed short clips there, but for some reason all I can get to work is youtube as the embed option at hulu is causing me problems.

also, if you have any suggestions let me know. Oh, I also tried fixing the sidebar so when you click on the season it takes you to the specific season page on the episode list. I thought I put the right link in but for some reason it doesn't function properly so maybe you can take a look at that as well, thanks Grande13 15:40, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * one more thing can you add this "e " to the latest template somehow so on the main page a little e appears next to the heading recent episodes so its much more convienient to edit that page. The same can be done for the Next Template too if you know how.  I'm not sure if i'm supposed to add it to the template itself or the main page Grande13 16:31, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * can you also figure out why the image for the episode isnt appearing on this page here 1600 Candles thanks Grande13 20:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * How's that? And about the image: I can see it just fine... ―  T hailog  09:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * looks nice! I'll be updating the Roger's Disguises page more if you havent seen it yet. Grande13 14:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I did. That's some great work. ―  T hailog  17:20, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

help embeding video
I've been messing around with it the past few days but I can't seem to be able to get any videos from hulu.com to appear. They have a much bigger section compared to youtube and have numerous clips that can be made into previews for upcoming episodes. The site is http://www.hulu.com/watch/64675/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-thu-mar-26-2009. I've already been able to get youtube clips on the site as you can see on the main page, but do you have any idea how to get hulu clips on the main page.

when you watch a video on hulu there is even an embed option but I have had no luck integrating that into this wiki. any ideas?

here is what it gives me on the embed option for hulu

  

Grande13 20:18, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, can't help you there. ―  T hailog  22:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Random Mix
The templates are set up for Headlines, Disguises and the Random Mix to stand alone because they are used seperately. Moving the pages created one hell of a mess I hope I have fixed. --Buckimion 15:22, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * The Random Newspaper Headline template is not being used in any page, so what's the point of it? ―  T hailog  16:56, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, I merged the two templates again. The Random Mix template is basically an update of the Random Newspaper Headline, so they should be one. I expect it to be left alone. If you happen to see "any mess" because of it, try to clear your cache. Also, I advise you against protecting pages willy-nilly. That should be done only do curtail vandalism, and I'm sure you're not suggesting my edits equated to vandalism. If you go protecting pages like that you are likely to drive editors away. ―  T hailog  17:22, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

chuckle...I realized the futility of protecting the pages about a half-second after. (I also knew it wasn't intentional vandalism or I'd have pulled the trigger on a block FIRST...what a lovely pickle THAT would have been. :) ) I now recall that Grande had wanted them kept separate so that they could be dropped back into the main page at will, although I think we were ignoring the last few updates to the separate disguises template so just dropping them isn't the worst idea.  --Buckimion 19:31, August 17, 2010 (UTC)

New look
It looks like wikia is trying again to shove the new look down our throats. Since you didn't like what I tried to do last time, can you take a crack at doing something with it? --Buckimion 12:22, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

Photo credits
I noticed recently that photo credits of the individuals posting them were removed from thumbnails. Is this something I saw you working on recently? I'd love to do that over on Family Guy and The Cleveland Show even though we've already changed about 99% of the pictures out of thumbnails to remove the credits. --Buckimion 21:42, January 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Add  to the .css. ―  T  hailog  12:14, January 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I presume it doesn't kick in right away but after they system resets itself overnight? Entered the info on both Family Guy and Cleveland Show but user names still on thumbnails. Doesn't surprise me though if it takes awhile to work. --Buckimion 12:30, January 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * You may need to refresh your cache. ―  T hailog  14:26, January 31, 2011 (UTC)

Characters
I'm was wondering which characters need pictures and which characters need to be making a debut on the website?

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